ASP.NET Core MVC versus ASP.NET Core Razor Pages

I was looking at Microsoft's documentation for ASP.Net Core.

I saw these 2 examples.



Example 1:  ASP.NET Core 2.2 MVC using Razor View


Tutorial: Get started with EF Core in an ASP.NET MVC web app
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/data/ef-mvc/intro?view=aspnetcore-3.1


Example 2: ASP.NET Core 3.0 Razor Pages

Razor Pages with Entity Framework Core in ASP.NET Core - Tutorial 1 of 8
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/data/ef-rp/intro?view=aspnetcore-3.1&tabs=visual-studio


On the code download for Example 1, the ASP.NET Core MVC example, the project is a ASP.NET Core 2.2 project.


On the code download for Example 2, the ASP.NET Core Razor Pages example, the project is a ASP.NET Core 3.0 project.



Is Microsoft shifting away from ASP.NET Core MVC Razor Views to ASP.NET Core Razor Pages ?

Anyone know ?

What I mean is, for a new project, Visual Studio 2019 gives you 2 choices , either  ASP.NET Core MVC  or ASP.NET Core Razor Pages.


Is it just a preference ? I read a little and I read Razor Pages simplifies the application structure over ASP.NET Core MVC structure.